Disconnect: Facebook's Affective Bonds Contributor(s): Karppi, Tero (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517903068 ISBN-13: 9781517903060 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $75.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Web - Social Media - Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory - Social Science | Popular Culture |
Dewey: 302.302 |
LCCN: 2018001582 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.8" W x 8.6" (0.79 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it Taking a nonhumancentric approach, Karppi explores how modern social media platforms produce and position users within a system of coded relations and mechanisms of power. For Facebook, disconnection is an intense affective force. It is a problem of how to keep users engaged with the platform, but also one of keeping value, attention, and desires within the system. Karppi uses Facebook's financial documents as a map to navigate how the platform sees its users. Facebook's plans to connect the entire globe through satellites and drones illustrates the material webs woven to keep us connected. Karppi analyzes how Facebook's interface limits the opportunity to opt-out--even continuing to engage users after their physical death. Showing how users have fought to take back their digital lives, Karppi chronicles responses like Web2.0 Suicide Machine, an art project dedicated to committing digital suicide. For Karppi, understanding social media connectivity comes from unbinding the bonds that stop people from leaving these platforms. Disconnection brings us to the limit of user policies, algorithmic control, and platform politics. Ultimately, Karppi's focus on the difficulty of disconnection, rather than the ease of connection, reveals how social media has come to dominate human relations. |